Best formatting plugins for WordPress
The most popular formatting plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Excerpt leads with 80K+ active installs, ahead of Raw HTML (10K+) and TinyMCE Clear Float (10K+). All 133 plugins tagged “formatting” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 formatting plugins
- 1.Advanced Excerpt
The most installed formatting plugin, with 80K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 101 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 2.Raw HTML
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 33 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.TinyMCE Clear Float
10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 4.Toggle wpautop
9K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 32 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 5.Advanced Image Styles
9K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 65 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 6.
Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 20 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 7.
Footnotes Made Easy2K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 40 reviews, updated 1 day ago.
- 8.
WP-RTL2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 9.
WP Super Edit2K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 18 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.0.
- 10.WP Typograph Lite
1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.1.
All 133 plugins tagged “formatting”
Advanced Excerpt
#541by WPKube3 months ago
Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.3(101)
- Downloads
- 317/day
Raw HTML
#1,528by Janis Elsts2 years ago
Lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. You can also disable smart quotes and other automatic formatting on a per-post basis.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(33)
- Downloads
- 47/day
TinyMCE Clear Float
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,702by Philipp Bammes8 years ago
Adds a button to the WordPress TinyMCE editor to clear floats.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Toggle wpautop
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,208by Jonathan Desrosiers5 years ago
Easily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.9(32)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Advanced Image Styles
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,219by Gregory Cornelius8 years ago
Adjust an image's margins and border with ease in the Visual editor.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.6(65)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg
#3,732by Ella Van Durpe7 years ago
Additional tools for rich text fields in Gutenberg.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(20)
- Downloads
- 7/day

Footnotes Made Easy
Up in the last 7 days:5#4,283by Patrick Lumumba1 day ago
Allows post authors to easily add and manage footnotes in posts and pages.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.6(40)
- Downloads
- 27/day

WP-RTL
Down in the last 7 days:13#4,934by Fahad Alduraibi9 years ago
Adds two buttons to the TinyMCE editor to enable writing text in Left to Right (LTR) and Right to Left (RTL) directions.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Super Edit
Down in the last 7 days:19#5,035by Ahmad Awais6 years ago
Get control of the WordPress wysiwyg visual editor and add some functionality with more buttons and custom TinyMCE plugins.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(18)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Typograph Lite
Down in the last 7 days:20#5,853by marapper9 years ago
Russian typography for Wordpress. Lite version.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

wpuntexturize
Down in the last 7 days:30#7,012by Scott Reilly1 year ago
Prevent WordPress from converting single and double quotation marks into their curly alternatives.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.6(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day

RichText Extension
Up in the last 7 days:8#7,067by Aki Hamano4 days ago
Adds useful decoration features to the Gutenberg RichText editor toolbar.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 17/day

Empty P Tag
Down in the last 7 days:4#7,647by Husain Ahmed2 months ago
Remove empty paragraph and break tags, and optionally disable WordPress automatic formatting (wpautop).
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Keep Emoticons as Text
Up in the last 7 days:15#7,821by Geek Goddess3 months ago
Disables the default WordPress option of converting emoticons to image smilies
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Preserve Code Formatting
Up in the last 7 days:38#9,519by Scott Reilly1 year ago
Preserve formatting of code for display by preventing its modification by WordPress and other plugins while also retaining whitespace.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP-Markdown
Down in the last 7 days:11#10,220by Stephen Harris8 years ago
Allows Markdown to be enabled in posts, comments and bbPress forums.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(28)
- Downloads
- 11/day

SmartDoc to Post Importer
Up in the last 7 days:27#10,708by Ankur1 month ago
Import Word documents into WordPress while preserving links, lists, formatting, images, tables, and more.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Pagely MultiEdit
Up in the last 7 days:18#10,838by joshua strebel10 years ago
MultiEdit adds tinyMCE editable "blocks" to WordPress custom page templates.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Remove Blank P Tag
Down in the last 7 days:49#11,188by Vishit Shah1 year ago
This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content and the_excerpt.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
WP Unformatted
Down in the last 7 days:16#11,550by Crowd Favorite4 years ago
The WP Unformatted plugin allows you to remove WordPress's smart quotes (texturize) and auto XHTML tags (autop) functionality on a per-post basis …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Remove Wpautop
Up in the last 7 days:45#12,381by Rahul Kumar Singh6 years ago
This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content and the_excerpt.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple HTML Rich Text for Block Editor
Up in the last 7 days:12#12,740by laurencebahiirwa3 years ago
Add Semantic HTML Markup to texts such as Cite, Small, Marked, Inserted and Deleted in the Block Editor.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Show Content Only
Down in the last 7 days:6#13,096by Zack Katz12 years ago
Display only the post or page content, without a theme, sidebars, scripts or stylesheets.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hoo Docx Document File Importer
Down in the last 7 days:42#13,288by HooThemes4 years ago
Hoo Docx Document File Importer converts the content of the docx file into HTML and inserts it into the posts and pages editor.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Just the Page
Up in the last 7 days:59#13,470by Ben Balter14 years ago
Displays page content with no additional formatting (e.g., no header, footer, etc.). Useful for publishing stand-alone HTML (such as invitations) with …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Text Control
Up in the last 7 days:31#13,619by Frank Bueltge13 years ago
Text Control will allow you to choose from a variety of formatting syntaxes and encoding options. You can choose between Markdown, Textile 1, Textile …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day
WP Typograph Full
Down in the last 7 days:467#13,716by marapper17 years ago
Russian typography for Wordpress. Full version with settings.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Excerpt Length
Up in the last 7 days:29#14,101by vertino17 years ago
Adds an Excerpt Length field setting to the Reading Settings section, this is used to set the number of words that appear in the the_excerpt().
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Acronyms 2
Down in the last 7 days:17#14,125by Chris2 years ago
A plugin to automatically mark up known acronyms and abbreviations in posts and comments. Allows users to manage lists of acronyms through the WordPre …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.8(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-SynHighlight
Down in the last 7 days:69#14,176by FractalizeR10 years ago
Plugin provides syntax highlighting for about 116 programming languages via Geshi.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Footnotes for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:44#14,836by C. Johnson10 years ago
Footnotes for WordPress enables easy-to-use fancy footnotes for WordPress posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Double Space
Down in the last 7 days:88#15,103by Josh Eaton14 years ago
Remove duplicate whitespace in between sentences or elsewhere within posts. Useful if multiple contributors use different styles for sentence spacing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Footnotes & Content
Down in the last 7 days:2#15,758by Golemiq1 month ago
Allows post authors to easily add and manage footnotes in posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Simple Markdown
Down in the last 7 days:79#17,534by Floris-Jan1 year ago
Simple and fast plugin to render markdown with a custom Gutenberg block. Professional code beautification and copy functionality included.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Inline Tooltips
Up in the last 7 days:326#18,051by Benedikt Ledl4 days ago
Adds a customizable inline tooltip format to the WordPress editor, enhancing content with interactive tooltips.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

16Deza Table Cell Extras
Up in the last 7 days:159#18,537by JuuRokuDezain2 months ago
Adds rich formatting options to Gutenberg table blocks — and optionally to any block.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Get Latest Post
Up in the last 7 days:77#18,558by Paul Schreiber10 years ago
Adds a shortcode tag [get_latest_post] to display an excerpt from your latest blog post.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

TinyMCE Code Formatting
Down in the last 7 days:65#18,605by mortalis11 years ago
Adds the Pre and Code buttons to the TinyMCE toolbar with customizable shortcuts
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Block Context
Up in the last 7 days:28#18,770by Kaspars2 months ago
Change block visibility for specific users.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Markdown on Save
Up in the last 7 days:66#18,871by Mark Jaquith2 years ago
Allows you to compose content in Markdown on a per-item basis. The markdown version is stored separately, so you can deactivate this plugin any time.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Class Selector
Up in the last 7 days:12#19,601by Aaron Forgue17 years ago
Allows users to style their post content using custom classes made available by the active theme.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Parsedown for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:212#19,691by rob1n11 years ago
This plugin processes your posts and comments using the Parsedown library. It is a direct replacement for PHP Markdown Extra by Michel Fortin.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Extra Sentence Space
Up in the last 7 days:280#20,527by Scott Reilly6 years ago
Force browsers to display two spaces (when present) between sentences.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Code and Core Remove Empty P Tags
Up in the last 7 days:2#20,594by Code and core2 months ago
Easily remove empty paragraph tags, non-breaking spaces, and extra line breaks. Now supports Frontend cleanup, Gutenberg, and ACF.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Markdown for WordPress and bbPress
#20,694by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)18 years ago
A text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
pure writing
Up in the last 7 days:7#20,869by young12 years ago
增强Wordpress的编辑器功能,让你享受纯粹的写作。
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Get Latest Tweets
Up in the last 7 days:51#21,967by Paul Schreiber10 years ago
Adds a shortcode tag [get_latest_tweets username='somename'] to display an excerpt from your latest blog post.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Page Extender
#22,521by grpsmglr0017 years ago
Inserts posts into pages corresponding to category. Add on plugin for Category Page by pixline.net. Requieres an active installation of Category Page …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Formatr
Down in the last 7 days:299#22,599by huntermaster11 years ago
Formats all content images on a page / post giving them captions and popups.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
По български
Down in the last 7 days:35#24,015by Nikolay Bachiyski13 years ago
Помага за по-доброто оформление за публикации на български език
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day